3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 4/5/2018
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Oregon governor: I’ll say no if Trump asks me to deploy National Guard troops to Mexico border
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) said she would reject a request from President Trump to dispatch National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“If @realDonaldTrump asks me to deploy Oregon Guard troops to the Mexico border, I’ll say no,” Brown tweeted.
“As Commander of Oregon’s Guard, I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s plan to militarize our border.”
She added: “There’s been no outreach by the President or federal officials, and I have no intention of allowing Oregon’s guard troops to be used to distract from his troubles in Washington.”
After one year of Trump, Obamacare is actually doing fine
12 million people signed up for health coverage for 2018.
After a year of headlines about “sabotage” — some of which ran here at Vox — and a year in which Trump officials dramatically cut advertising for the law and pulled payments to insurers that risked driving them out of the market, the Affordable Care Act seems to be doing more or less fine.
Don’t be mistaken: The Trump administration didn’t help matters. Working overtime to repeal the law, telling the American people that the ACA is dead and gone, slashing advertising by 90 percent and enrollment support by 40 percent, ending key payments to insurers while Congress refused to appropriate them and take the issue off the table — the Republican Party and Trump did everything they could throughout 2017 to undermine Obamacare.
THE QUESTION ONLY MARK ZUCKERBERG CAN ANSWER BEFORE CONGRESS
Wednesday afternoon. But the most important question he may not be prepared to answer is far more philosophical. It has little to do with engineering fixes or the technicalities of Facebook’s privacy policies in 2014. It’s this: How can Facebook ward off tomorrow’s crisis if its guiding principle is and always has been connection at all cost, maximizing the flow of data between people and their friends—as well as advertisers and apps? And if it radically alters that ethos—the one that allowed it to grow to 2.2 billion users and counting—can it sustain itself?
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